1. Nova Spivack is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author.
18 Facts About Nova Spivack
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Nova Spivack is the founder and CEO of the early stage science and technology incubator Magical and co-founder of The Arch Mission Foundation.
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Nova Spivack has invested in companies such as Klout, Sensentia, PublishThis, Next IT, and is a venture partner in Rewired.
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Nova Spivack is an advisor for EES Ventures, and is on the board of directors of the Common Crawl Foundation.
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Nova Spivack was born in Boston and grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Nova Spivack was admitted early to the University of Massachusetts Boston and attended while still in high school.
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Nova Spivack studied philosophy at Oberlin College with focus on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1991.
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Nova Spivack majored in Space Life Sciences, and worked on ISU's space humanities program.
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Nova Spivack later trained with the Russian Air Force in reduced-gravity parabolic flight and flew to edge of space with Space Adventures in 1999.
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Nova Spivack co-founded EarthWeb, a website that provided career development resources and technical information to IT professionals, in 1994.
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Nova Spivack raised initial outside venture funding for Radar Networks in April 2006.
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Nova Spivack serves as a patron for the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
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Nova Spivack is a member of the Education and Awareness Council of For All Moonkind, Inc.
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Nova Spivack says the Arch Mission and Lunar Library were inspired by an early childhood dream of his of the future.
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In 2021, Nova Spivack announced partnerships with Astrobotic Technology and Galactic Legacy Labs for several return missions to the Moon such as a second attempt to deliver the Lunar Library and for consumers to land their personal memories and photos on the Moon.
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Nova Spivack is the founder and CEO of Magical Corporation, a science and technology venture studio.
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Nova Spivack is considered a leading pioneer in semantic web technology.
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Nova Spivack writes about the future of the Internet and topics concerning search, social media, personalization, information filtering, entrepreneurship, and Web technology and applications.